New project: New York Photo City!

New York Photo City is a publication that aims to bring visual inspiration to your day in a simple way, through one photograph at a time, delivered directly to your inbox every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

This newsletter is an invitation for you to look at my work in a more intimate way, without the distractions that social media feeds have. By receiving it in your email inbox, you’re in control of when you want to open it, how much time you want to spend looking at the photograph, and how you want to interact with it.

The content of New York Photo City will be a mix of recent and archival work, with occasional related career updates and more. Subscribe below for free to receive it in your inbox. Hope to see you there!

10 favorite Newsletters

Continuing the celebration of my first 100 subscribers, here are 10 newsletters that inspire me to keep going:

01 » A list of 10 things, by Austin Kleon

02 » Maker Mind, by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

03 » BrainPint, by Janel

04 » Dense Discovery, by Kai Brach

05 » The Slice, by Nic

06 » Creativerly, by Philipp Temmel

07 » The Curious Bunch, by Vidya

08 » The Land of Random, by David Nichols

09 » Plan Your Next, by Nate Kadlac

10 » Adventures in Life, by Coach Willis

» bonus: Snubsta

Celebrating 100 subscribers: 10 learnings so far

It took 4 months for my newsletter to hit 100 subscribers, and just another week to double that. In celebration of this important milestone, here are 10 things I learned along the way:

01 » Write the newsletter that you would be excited to receive in your inbox.

02 » Don’t wait for validation, just start.

03 » You won’t be equally excited with every single issue, and that’s ok. Just keep shipping.

04 » You never know which content will resonate with people, so just share things that you genuinely love.

05 » No one has it all figured out.

06 » No matter how small your audience is, people are paying attention to what you're doing.

07 » Changes will not happen overnight. So just keep going, and make adjustments along the way.

08 » Writing allows you to discover what it is that you like to write about.

09 » Celebrate all victories, no matter how small they look

10 » Remember to enjoy the journey and have fun along the way!

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bonus: make sure you keep track of your learnings, milestones, appreciations, and everything that inspires you to keep going!

How I use Notion to Curate Content for my Newsletter

I've been using Notion to collect and curate most of the content I've been sharing in my weekly newsletter, and I'm finally in a comfortable place with my workflow. Thought I'd share here in case it may inspire someone to do something similar. My workflow basically happens in 4 steps:

1: Daily Journal

My daily journal pages are directly connected to my content databases, through the use of relations, and every day I am tracking the things I'm watching, listening to, reading, or playing. Note that I use one separate database for each type of media. Some people prefer one database for all, it's just a personal preference here.

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2: Recent Content

About once a week I visit a dashboard I call "Recent Content", which shows me all the content I consumed within the past month, all contained in toggles organized by type of content. It serves two purposes: a reminder of things I consumed, and a chance to mark the content as "to share", meaning that it's something I may want to share in a future issue of the newsletter.

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3: Content to Share

Similar to the one above, "Content to Share" is another dashboard that shows me content I consumed organized in categories, but this time filtered to show me only content that I previously marked as "to share" and have not yet shared in any issue before. Being able to look at all the content in a visual way, on one single page, allows me to notice possible themes, ideas, connections, that otherwise may not happen.

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4: The Newsletter Template

Inside my newsletter dashboard, I have a database that stores all the ideas, upcoming issues, and the archive. As part of my housekeeping routine, the day after I publish the latest issue, I go back to its page and make sure I link all the content shared in the respective fields, again through the use of relations, since all my content databases are also related to my newsletter database. This not only makes it easier for me to remember what I shared on past issues but also ensures that this content won't be visible on the "Content to Share" dashboard.

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I hope this was helpful! Let me know if you have any questions or even ideas on how to improve the system!